Can working out and weightlifting cause acne?
I never had acne before until I started weightlifting 6 months ago. Every time I worked out, my face felt extremely hot even thou I had appropriate rest and took plenty of water. Pimples came up 1 or 2 days after that and breakout all over my face.
I read some articles about it. They say that because weightlifting can raise the testosterone level, your hormones...that is needed to build muscle so it can developed acne. Not really because of sweating or anything else.
So I stopped working out after that. But acne is still all over my faces, and getting worse over the next 2 months. It took me 3 months, after trying many acne treatments like Acnefree and Proactiv, for my face to cleared up a little bit.
I'm happy at the result and I believe that Proactiv will control my breakouts. I decided to work out again. Then, acne comes back again. Not really that bad like before, but new breakout happens everytime after I worked out.
I really enjoyed weighlifting. What should I do now?